Types of surveillance
For those that wish to live free, surveillance and tracking is our primary nemesis. But in order to defeat our enemy, we must first understand it. Within this article, we will begin to analyse some of the most prominent methods of surveillance in use by modern actors. Firstly, we must discuss that surveillance methods may be broadly grouped into two categories, with those being those of broad and targeted surveillance methods. Broad surveillance is a collective term for a variety of methods employed by governments, law enforcement agencies and private corporations in order to collect, utilize and abuse personal information. This system relies on the collection, automated filtering and profiling of everyone in a given geographical area or that may utilize certain technological systems. The primary intent of broad scale surveillance varies based on the actor responsible, but will likely have one of two primary objectives; to control a population, or to profiteer of them. The first, and m...